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...Obama's outreach to students didn't spring from some starry-eyed principle. It started as a specific element of his early strategy in Iowa. The first-in-the-nation caucuses allow 17-year-olds to vote if they are going to turn 18 before the general election, which means most high school seniors are eligible. To win those kids, Obama did something unusual in politics: he made them a genuine priority. After his rallies in towns across the state, he met backstage with student leaders from the area - a privilege most campaigns reserve for local VIPs and fund raisers...
...wake of last month’s disputed election, Kenyan students and faculty are putting aside their own views on the political situation there in an effort to provide humanitarian support. About 15 students, faculty, and community members met yesterday to discuss plans for immediate emergency relief and outreach efforts, including a concert in Boston. Since December’s presidential election, more than 700 people have been killed, and thousands more have been displaced. John M. Mugane, a professor of African languages who chaired the meeting, said that the plight of refugees affected by the violence should...
Paul J. Barreira, director of behavioral health and academic counseling at UHS, said Holoshitz and outgoing UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 came to him with idea of expanding the College’s reading period outreach efforts...
...Egypt for the Pyramids, India for the Taj Mahal, Nepal to scale Mount Everest. Carter not only gets to drive that new car - a Mustang Shelby, prominently placed for maximum commercial impact - he gets to smash it up on a racetrack. If the Make-a-Wish Foundation had an outreach program for adolescent alterkockers, this would be the dream list...
...Brandt’s ambitious University-wide outreach will likely be aided by a set of widely praised speaking skills that have carried him through high-pressure situations in the past...